Borrowdale Wood This is a painting I did a little while ago now, an experimental adventure, really. I have always been fascinated by the work of the neo-impressionist painter GEORGES SEURAT, who developed the technique of placing little spots of colour side by side on the canvass, instead of mixing them on the palette, and allowing the EYE to blend them when viewed at a distance. My little 'spots' of colour are more subtle than those of Seurat because they have been mixed on my palette, but the same principle applies; the eye of the beholder still has to blend colour. I developed the painting using this photograph, top right, that I took in Borrowdale in the Lake District ......